Abstract
The worldwide phenomena of climate change and globalization raise many questions for the social sciences. How do globalization and climate change affect each other? What challenges do their interactions present to social scientists? Who are the winners and losers from globalization and climate change? Do their impacts on the welfare of specific social groups intensify or offset each other? Within the limited scope of this chapter, I intend to provide some brief (and incomplete) answers to these important questions.
The Kaya Identity quantifies the role of global production and its linkages to technology in generating the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions that are mainly responsible for climate change. From his work on the entropy law and its relation to economic growth, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen concluded that there is an urgent need to restrain the level of economic activity and the resulting generation of pollution and other waste products. Georgescu-Roegen’s writings inspired subsequent advocates of this view such as Serge Latouche.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2017).
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It has been estimated that deforestation causes one-fifth of the increase in GHGs in the atmosphere.
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Article 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
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Pope Francis (2015).
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Rockström and Klum (2015) identify nine planetary boundaries whose violation places the future of our planet at risk. They believe that four of these (including climate change and biodiversity loss) have already been transgressed.
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See also Bartelmus (2013).
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Marshall (1920, xiv) made the memorable claim that ‘the Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology rather than in economic dynamics.’
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Grinevald and Rens (1995) introduce and translate into French several key writings of Georgescu-Roegen.
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Maneschi, A. (2018). Globalization and Climate Change. In: Bergé, JS., Harnay, S., Mayrhofer, U., Obadia, L. (eds) Global Phenomena and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60180-9_4
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